b3oku (b3oku) asked a question.
Workflows not turning on.
So my Workflows are not turning on after successfully making connections to apps and configuring the connections. I get an error message in red at the bottom left saying "Cannot Activate flow, Webhook registration failed." I currently do not have any event hooks but I am confused as to if I actually need an event hook to use workflows because all the example I see online with configuring workflows, there are not any that states I need to configure a Webhook ( Event or Inline) before successfully using workflows. Please help thank you. If you can find a video that solves the problem as well I would be forever grateful.
@b3oku (b3oku) -- Based on your description you have a card in the "Event" slot of the flow. The card is most likely a third-party vendor.
The Event Slot essentially has 2 types of third-party cards:
In your instance it will be the "API Endpoint" variety that sets up an Event/Webhook on flow enable (and removes it on flow disable). So when you attempt to turn the flow on it is making a call to the third-party. The setup of the Event/Web hook is failing causing the flow enablement to fail.
A pretty common misunderstanding is that Workflows "monitors" something. Workflows doesn't "monitor" anything. In all of these situations Workflows is either invoking due to being an API endpoint and a payload was received OR because on a set schedule it was told to invoke (then do something).
The reason I have mentioned this is for clarity on why you are seeing your error. The built-in cards are designed for ease-of-use by reducing the amount of steps needed for setup. For the Event cards it combines "Setting up an API Endpoint" && Setting up a "Web/Event" Hook pointing to the API Endpoint (and potentially some other processing logic of the received payload to list values in the pre-mapped fields)